The Crane House
2 blocks from Ashby BART (email jacobmakesnoise@yahoo.com for address and directions)
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We’re happy to bring Jim Ryan back for an evening of music and art. We had a great performance with his group Green Alembic last October. For this night he’s got two great and very different projects here continuing to showcase his multi-faceted approach to music making.

8 PM: Kanoko Nishi-Smith plays Koto to projections of Jim’s Watercolors of the Oakland hills

9 PM: Virtual Assembly: Bob Marsh cello * Jim Ryan flute * Eli Wallace piano

Although her primary training is in classical piano performance, Kanoko Nishi’s most recent interest has been in improvisational music making, both in a solo context and in collaborations with other artists. She has been exploring on the piano, as well as on her second instrument, koto (13, or 17-string Japanese zither), various extended techniques, in addition to more traditional techniques, in order to widen the range of vocabularies on each instrument and to enable them to adapt to different musical genres.

Virtual Assembly is a chamber trio that doesn’t know what it’s going to play before it plays. But when it plays, the problem of all the capacities and ideas it has within turns into live music. Before that the music is not actual, it’s virtual; yet real . . . i.e. concentrated in the assembly like the dream of a butterfly in the cocoon. Bob Marsh is a veteran multi-instrumentalist and master cellist active on the Bay Area experimental scene since the turn of the century. Jim Ryan has also been performing in the Bay Area for many years. Eli Wallace is a recent MFA graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. “The reality of the virtual consists of the differential elements and relations along with the singular points which correspond to them. The reality of the virtual is structure.” Gilles Deluze Difference and Repetition.

The space: We are located 2 blocks from Ashby BART, on the Oakland/Berkeley border. Come through the gate on the left and walk back to the studio entrance. In order to preserve the dance floor, please leave your shoes at the door.



Cost: $6-$10

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